Scientists studying the "twin" solar system: "This is similar to using a time machine to look at her as a Young Man"

Scientists have suggested that the star system Epsilon Eridana away from Earth at 10.5 light-years away, there may be yet to be visible to us the world, while she may be a copy of the solar system at an early stage in its development.

That is the conclusion they came through some indirect signs - in particular, the availability of asteroid belts and specific gravity "hesitation", said InoPressa.ru with reference to The Independent.

One planet, which could lead to the formation of the internal ring of asteroids already discovered, and two more will seek a second near the asteroid belt and the inner edge of the so-called zone Koypera, writes the publication.

"Solntsepodobnaya star Epsilon Eridana visible naked eye - not counting the Sun, a third of the closest stars visible without a telescope - after Alpha Centauri and Sirius. By age, size and temperature, she nevertheless concedes Sun.

This star system is something like "much younger" versions of the solar system. Therefore, the newspaper said Dr. Massimo Marengo of the Harvard-Smitsonskogo Astrophysical Center in Cambridge, to study Epsilon Eridana - this is as good as using a time machine to look at our solar system during its youth. "

Co-author of the study Dr. Dana Bekman cooperating with the search for extraterrestrial civilizations (SETI), added: "It probably looks very much the same way as we looked when the Earth in its infancy life."

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Aznar attack 'the flag of doom' of climate change

Climate change is not a real phenomenon, but a theory "scientifically questionable" that has been transformed into a "new religion" are some whose flag " enemies of freedom ". With this clearly has expressed the Government's former president, Jos Mara Aznar, introducing the book 'Blue Planet (not green), "the president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, edited by the FAES Foundation that runs the chairman of honor People's Party.

Faced with the conclusions drawn up by more than 2,500 scientists who make up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the UN on the human causes of global warming and the serious consequences that could result in failure to reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, Aznar has not hesitated to attack "the flag of the climate apocalypse," which in his opinion "little or nothing to do with science."

The former president has defended the Government "reasonable doubt ahead of political correctness," before praising the "courage" of the ideas advocated by Klaus in his book, an essay that questioned the conclusions of the experts of the IPCC and rejects the emissions reductions imposed by the Kyoto Protocol, ratified by the Executive Aznar in 2002.

Aznar's words represent a clear departure from the current position of the PP leader, Mariano Rajoy, who after the famous incident of his cousin, that questioned climate change, joined the fight against global warming as a central element of PP's agenda in the last general elections.

Also contradict the thesis about the need to combat climate change argue that all major leaders of the center-right European, Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and David Cameron, and even the current view of the George W. Bush, who for years after questioning climate change finally accepted last year.

At the moment of "an economic crisis that is particularly acute in Spain," the former president's government has harshly criticized that "the flag of the apocalypse climate requires devoting hundreds of billions of euros to causes such ... scientifically questionable in its viability as being able to maintain the temperature of the Earth within a hundred years and solve a problem that may or may not have our great-great-grandson. "

However, the president of FAES has defended the need to "investigate new sources of energy" and work to "strengthen the energy mix so dependent countries like Spain with a clean and safe energy, such as nuclear power."

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'deceptive dogma'

Aznar, however, has rejected as "what some call a denial of climate change," and on the contrary has assured that it is considered "green, if it means preserving the ecology environment, preserve our forests, support biodiversity, recycling, saving energy. " However, he has insisted that the advocates of "climate apocalypse" constitute a threat to freedom because they defend "a new religion that condemns the stake from the public square to those who dare to call into question his thesis."

Following the presentation of Aznar, Vaclav Klaus has taken the floor to proclaim that "freedom is at risk, and the weather is fine." The president of the Czech Republic believes that the fight against global warming has become "somewhat irrational" based on a "deceptive dogma" rather than serious scientific research.

"The global warming is not, nor is big, nor is unprecedented," said Klaus, like Aznar contradicting the view of IPCC reports, the scientific body of reference in the field of climate change.

Klaus has not hesitated to describe the former U.S. vice president, Al Gore, winner in 2007 with the Nobel Peace Prize for his campaign against climate change, as a "manipulator" who has misled the world's population with his famous documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth '.

"We have to deal with this propaganda!", he exclaimed Klaus before an audience who were present at the figures of the Popular Party as Ana Botella, Manuel Pizarro, Eduardo Zaplana, Elvira Rodriguez and Miguel Arias Canete.

Front interventionism that Klaus to represent "all those radical environmentalists who want to impose rules on how to live our lives and what we should eat," the president of the Czech Republic has argued that "human freedom, innovation and market will be sufficient to preserve our prosperity. "

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Yanukovych has called for reform of the Ukrainian Constitution, limiting presidential power

The Party of Regions of Ukraine defends changes to the Constitution, providing for a parliamentary-presidential form of government. This was stated at a briefing party leader Viktor Yanukovych. With promises to make the eve of Ukraine made a strong parliamentary republic, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

Commenting on recent joint vote the Party of Regions and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc Viktor Yanukovych said that at the initiative of his party in parliament, a process of unification. At the same time, he clarified that "virtually no negotiations on the future coalition, was not yet". He also said that he could work with all responsible political forces in parliament, said NEWSru.ua.

-- Yushchenko has accused Moscow in the collapse of the Ukrainian
-- The secretariat of the joint Yushchenko against early elections and parliament president
-- Cheney Yushchenko said Ukraine's position on the proximity and the U.S. for Georgia

On the reaction of the secretariat of President Viktor Yushchenko to the adoption of the Party of Regions together with BYT bills, which have substantially limited the actions of the president, Yanukovych said: "The reaction (Secretariat of the President to adopt these laws) understandable. Because no one was going to fulfil, now acting Constitution and none not going to work legally. "

Recall, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on September 2 expanded the powers of the Prime Minister, in particular by giving him the right to negotiate and sign international treaties without proper acts of the President. Another adopted laws Rada has overcome the veto of President, for the first time in its history, Ukraine's parliament made it possible impeachment proceedings president. At that Yushchenko accused the parliamentarians in a constitutional coup and promised to veto the parliament adopted on September 2 laws, as well as to dissolve it if the party one month does not create a new coalition.

Today, Viktor Yanukovych confirmed his readiness to take part in next presidential campaign, if such a decision will take his party. Note that eve, he said that was ready to cooperate with the Prime Minister, leader of a bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko if he will be president and she - the head of the government.

Foreign policy statements Yanukovych-a potential candidate for president of Ukraine

Viktor Yanukovych excludes the possibility of entry of Ukraine into NATO against the will of the people. This September 5, he said at a briefing, responding to journalists' questions. "I think that any attempt to forcibly Ukraine into NATO is doomed to failure, "- he said. According to the policy," this issue should address the Ukrainian people on the Ukrainian referendum. "

Meanwhile, according to recent studies, the entry into NATO supports only 16.6% of Ukrainians. The majority were in favour of off-country status.

Yanukovich and again spoke about his views on the Ukrainian-Russian relations. The leader of the Regions Party believes that they "have been and will always be good-neighbourly and strategic."

According to him, recently "these relations have deteriorated a little" because of the Caucasus conflict. "But nothing terrible happened. We are trying to rectify the situation, change the tone of dialogue between Ukraine and Russia" - Yanukovych said, adding that "ahead - the negotiation process, and we serious about this. "

Speaking about the conflict in the Caucasus, Yanukovich noted that "Russia was not the initiator of the Georgian-South Ossetia conflict." "The answer to Russia provocative and criminal acts of Georgia was very tough. He may not have been predict from Georgia. But the attack on a peaceful Georgia population - this crime. Thus territorial it is impossible to maintain the integrity of the country. This must be condemned again and forever, "- Yanukovych said.

Recognition of the independence of Russia South Ossetia and Abkhazia - "logical confirmation process that was initiated by Western countries against Kosovo independence ", considers Yanukovych. Leader of the Party of Regions warned the West of applying double standards in connection with the latest developments in the Caucasus.

He said that Ukraine should adopt the expressed will of the peoples of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and to recognize their independence.

Yushchenko has accused Moscow in the collapse of the coalition of democratic forces

The political crisis in Ukraine, inspired by Moscow, but Kiev does not come with ways to integrate with the EU and NATO, said in an interview with Financial Times Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko.

When asked whether he has any proof of that, Yushchenko responded that his former Yulia Tymoshenko had some talks with "foreign forces". The collapse of the coalition, according to the Ukrainian president, is not the result of purely Ukrainian activities.

Yushchenko also added that Ukraine has recently implemented irrecoverable steps towards building democracy, and the very "democratic" solution to current problems would be found. Yushchenko has called what is happening now at the top of Ukrainian politics - battle for power. And this battle of Ukraine, in his view, will be a stronger and more hardened. The tank will not be on the streets.

Yushchenko said that, even when the new coalition will be created with the participation of pro-Russian forces, support for European integration of Ukraine and will continue to remain strong. Political and business elite of Ukraine, behind the majority of the country's political forces, Sun ' expresses strong support EU membership and to a lesser extent - in NATO, transmits NEWSru.ua.

Georgia - a world leader in building military strength, which in Russia is several times exaggerated

The authenticity of such often sounded recently by Russian authorities of figures as "30 - fold increase military budget in the years of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili," examines "Kommersant." Analysts editions come to the conclusion that this figure is overstated by about three times. However, the international ratings, Georgia Sun Ñ well leader in building military strength over the past 10 years.

An estimated authoritative Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), increase military spending began in Georgia with Mikhail Saakashvili, and when Eduard Shevardnadze, in 2001. First, the pace of growth has been relatively modest: 27% - in 2001, 14.3% - in 2002, 11.7% - in 2003, 14% - in 2004.

The record was the same in 2005 - 165.5% increase. Following this increase in military spending by 69% of Georgia in 2006 and 63% in the past year, again looks relatively modest. If we compare the rate of 2007 and 2003, the first figure is more than a second in the 30 and not 33 times, as Russian officials claim, but only 10.26 times, calculated Kommersant.

Meanwhile, the representatives of the Russian authorities called the score and "50 times". In particular, "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" led this figure with the words representative of Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In turn, "Kommersant" explains otherwise strangely "promotional figures" so that over the five years since the overthrow of Shevardnadze, the Georgian changed as well as the world economy: neither U.S. nor Georgian lari sample in 2003 simply does not correspond to today, and to hold valid comparisons difficult.

If we compare SIPRI data on military expenditure around the world in 2007 and 1998 (translated into U.S. model in 2005 and given the purchasing power parity), it turns out that Georgia, where military spending in a decade increased by almost 1300% (14 times ), In any case is the first line. In the second place, roughly twice yielding leader, is the Democratic Republic of Congo. At 10 - ku also includes Latvia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Estonia and Belarus, ahead of Guinea-Bissau, Sudan and China.

For comparison, "Kommersant" also leads ratio of military spending to GDP and its change over the last decade, but from another source - a popular encyclopedias CIA World Factbook. Top countries in which over the past decade fastest growing proportion of military expenditure in the national economy, virtually coincides with the rank SIPRI. But the leaders - still Georgia. 9-place Tajikistan and other countries, trapped in the top, far removed from the post-Soviet space: El Salvador, Indonesia, Botswana, Macedonia, Swaziland, Burundi, Mauritania, Nigeria.

According to the forecasts of newspapers in the top countries with high rates of growth in military spending should soon enter Ukraine is not yet there, which plans to significantly increase its military budget.

Bachelot Act: the risk of complete public hospital

Following the failure of the 2004 reform which was to restore the balance of accounts in 2007, the Minister of Health, Roselyne Bachelot, prepares its law "patient, health territory" for the end of 2008. It is widely expected to resume the proposals contained in the report Larcher surrendered in April 2008 to leave the public hospital sector of the crisis. This crisis of the public sector is multifaceted: economic crisis, public hospitals deficit of 760 million euros in 2007 (half of which by CHU), sociological crisis - a hospital staff motivation and a loss of attractiveness of the public hospital for the medical professions, quality crisis - the problem of the safety of care - more than 5 000 deaths per year due to nosocomial infections.

If this law was merely resume the contents of the report Larcher, could seriously condemn the public hospital for at least three reasons.

First, this report confirms widespread pricing to the activity - called T2A. Institutions are now paid according to the diagnosis and acts performed for each patient at a hospital. The T2A east of the same vein as the payment to the act to physicians, we know outdated in an era of global medicine - predictive, preventive and curative - the twenty-first century. This principle promotes overconsumption of medical care (and therefore deficits), does not quickly restore the patient and slows the development of preventive behaviors. It wants to generate a hospital productivity gains by encouraging the forceps services to multiply acts. However, the disadvantage T2A strong public hospital, which handles serious diseases, ensure a research and teaching, as a public service, can select his patients (older, more complex, with more difficulties and social handicaps). The T2A will dehumanize hospitals and factories to make care.

Then, the report offers no solution to the establishment of 35 hours in hospital, true economic and social disaster. Working conditions have deteriorated, the State has to pay more than 700 million euros in overtime, pending the next cheque. The finding of widespread failure of 35 hours in hospital, is a rich basis for reflection with the social partners in their reform. The payroll accounting for more than 70% of operating expense to the public, not to change this system is tantamount to condemning the government hospital in low productivity and a chronic deficit. It is even less viable as the rules of Trustees of the public hospital, compared to the private sector, are cumbersome and nit-picking, requiring considerable time for important decisions and additional costs associated with these deadlines. For example, reconstruction of maternity Port-Royal de Paris, currently underway, was decided in 1990. For too long, the only justification for keeping a small hospital was maintaining jobs without the mayor (chairman of the board) is worried about the fiscal deficit nor the flight of doctors not wanting to work in small teams. The health persists to manage the hospital as a hotel and not a care company.

With 35 hours and T2A, on the objective to public hospitals (70% are in deficit ) To become profitable, have even more the role of public service and support new types of care associated with addiction. As in any organization, individuals who compose it - doctors, nurses and administrative - are lucid and rational; their targets as they consider impossible to hold with the strategy and measures put in place is an assurance of motivation, fatigue and therefore failure.

The alleged failure of a law to save the public hospital - essential link of a functioning health system - is emblematic of the failure of the political civilization due by the president, and hence a decline in our modern civilization.

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Two aircraft hijackers surrendered to Sudanese authorities Libya. The rest could hide under the guise of passengers

Two of the group of air pirates, seized the airliner Sudanese airline Sun Air, surrendered to authorities in Libya, told representatives of civil aviation of the country. They have not ruled out that other hijackers - there were about 10 people - escaped from the Libyan authorities, together with passengers, who were released earlier on Wednesday, passes by Interfax. "

On Wednesday, all the passengers were Sudanese passenger plane released the Sudan Liberation Army.

Recall airliner, coming on the route from the town of Nyala (Sudanese province of Darfur) to the capital Khartoum, was captured on the eve of 20 - first minute of flight and sent to Cairo. After the Cairo airport refused to take a plane hijackers sent it to Libya.

Liner due to lack of fuel flew to Tripoli airport and had landed in the town of Kufra in southern Libya.

The only requirement was to continue pirates flight to Paris, where they planned to meet with Walid Mohammed Abdel Nur, who directs "Sudan Liberation Army" - one of the rebel groups in Darfur province.

City and Nature

Last Saturday I was with some students invited by their teacher, a good friend, to take a stroll through the Sierra de Madrid. The tour was very pleasant. Mojamos us a lot, since those days it was raining a little bit in Spain. But that is part of life in nature. The water does not pass the skin, and nothing happens to get wet. Did not we do it every day in the shower?

The students, most of which has always lived in the city, unaware of two things of nature. One, the horrific act of genetic survival of the gene better able to reproduce. The second, the inevitable laws of that nature, the laws of physics.

These two

ignorance, repeated in the political, financial and entrepreneurs from around the world, we have brought to the predicament in which we find ourselves and that we will only think that if we give people money to banks. But who gives money to us so that we give money to banks?

Same banks, in a system that bites its tail. The practice is supposed us out of the crisis stems from a theory false and haggard, the current economic theory that was built in the nineteenth century and which only considers the flow of capital, never his generation.

Without wealth creation will continue to worsen the crisis indefinite, as in real life the law governing the growth of entropy.

These political, financial and entrepreneurs spend their lives in offices, surrounded by concrete and asphalt. Occasionally lead them (because they do not go) as citizens some hunts as the boring business that fill their lives. They kill some partridges, some rabbits, even from time to time stags that some few them closer to the 4x4 with the touring fields without stain the boots or move muscles.

Think that is the human being who makes the laws of life. Leaving aside the unlikely possibility that the current crisis is a huge scam to steal money from citizens (financial celebrating that states spent millions have bought their businesses, rulers happy to be able to control even more money from citizens), the crisis, if it is real, ignoring derived from these natural laws, and especially one of them, this law of growth of entropy, which tells us that if we do not act efficiently, the systems have just stopped by accumulation of entropy, energy useless.

Human being, especially financial ones that sell and buy on the stock exchanges, it is believed freed from those laws, firmly believes (even the crooks) that the meals are free and do not have to pay what one does.

His time scale is the primate, the hour or day, and they reject that life is lived through years, decades and millennia. And not just financial. A certain majority of the population, bred in the city, assumes that others will pay what they do, what they spend. That there are some 'rights' that require human nature to look after them and protect them do what they do. That is the idea of the welfare state.

Need to go back to nature, to see it, feel it, understand it. To understand that in nature there is no free lunch, and to pay for everything that is done. To understand that the struggle for life and the triumph of the more 'fit' is a strategy of the genes to ensure their spread, but we, human beings, because we do not have to follow that strategy.

These days I am proposing a new city. The city in which we live is a legacy of a very primitive, like religion in that we are and almost all other religions.

Many thousands of years ago, humans learned to control the energy we could capture: the domestication of photosynthesis were guaranteed at our disposal, on a regular basis, a certain amount of energy daily or yearly.

Before that the energy that we could access was limited and collection of very irregular. We set the cities to keep that energy, which collected once a year, or a few times a year.

Force to gather this energy were some machines called human bodies and animal bodies (slaves and beasts of burden), and to get that energy was needed fertile soil. The wars of the past 8000 years has always been to capture slaves and to get ground clearance work and energy.

The last two world wars and the recent skirmish Ossetia, are relics of something that is no longer necessary, but in whose pointlessness (land and machinery alive) human beings are not given as much time.

The city was compact, hierarchical, with walls. The richness of the city should return to it every night and be protected from others that wanted. It was developed trade, but this trade stemmed from available sources of energy.

What are the cities of today, but those relics of primitive forms of addressing the need to define a living being, the pursuit of power?

Today

Cities remain hierarchical, and even if the wealth is not. The cities still have walls, but these are not stone. And cities claim to be the sites of accumulation of wealth (such as wheat silos) even if the wealth is now spread throughout the globe.

Today

Wars are pointless, because the wealth that provide human beings are their minds, and they can not conquer, or at least can not be won through war, although it was conquered by marketing, propaganda and television.

Today, the land has ceased to have any value, because energy can be obtained from any square kilometer in area, whether it be fertile or not.

The compact city of ancient humans had direct contact with nature, then had to go out every day to the surrounding fields. In cities today, inheritors of those, humans do not see nature.

Must recreate today the concept of the city. Today, the three basic ideas that forced this concept have disappeared. Today we do not need to save in silos products of the earth, since the food is really where it is on boats, trains and trucks, always in motion.

Today, the fertile land is not the main source of energy, but so is any planet's surface, roofs and facades of buildings, deserts and mountain slopes.

Today

Are useless walls, as if this attack comes from the sky. Today the concept of 'king' in his throne has disappeared, although there are some who would like to restore things to their advantage.

Of all the concepts

Side of town are some who may still be valid. The city provides contact between anonymous people, enabling nullifying the concept of tribal and feudal system closed.

The city provides local commercial exchanges between their citizens. It offers a reasonable schedule of entertainment, provided that its size is not excessive. From a certain size allows a choice of products and services impossible for cities where that size is small.

Joining the disappearance of the concepts of primary city with the maintenance of the desirable side, and adding to enable can return to being in close contact with nature, a substantial saving of energy in transportation, and power generation site that eliminates substantial losses of the same and enables the elimination of monopolies in the only real wealth generation, we arrive at a model city in the twenty-first century.

A network of medium-sized cities. With public squares but no center. Each city must be hair, large, non-hierarchical, with local transportation by bicycle and / or similar means of public transport semi-electric, automated and no more distant from each home / office 10 minutes away.

Electric interurban transportation and automated. Local generation of energy whose need is minimized through saving designs. With a nature domesticated, but plentiful and close, based in parks but not in forests, ie with high density of trees and meadows interspersed between buildings and neighborhoods.

This latest proposal is nothing more than an outline of a possibility to start a series of research / debate. One controversial proposal, which sought to give life to some questions needed.

Do we do it?

Puttin' on the Ritz (Manhattan, New York City)

Russian microbes first to fly a satellite of Mars and go back

Party experimental terrestrial microorganisms went to Mars satellite Phobos, the project "Phobos-Grunt" and then revert back to Earth, told the Interfax scientific secretary of the Institute for Space Research (IKI), Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Zakharov. The results of the experiment will verify the theory on which life on earth brought from space. In addition, this experiment will be one of the stages of preparation for manned flight to Mars.

"The meaning of the experiment was to explore how they would feel more microorganisms in the process of prolonged space flight. Bioturistami capsules will be installed on the unit returned. Thus, they will visit on Phobos and return", - Zakharov said.

He added that the container for shipment of microbes will produce the Americans, and the micro-organisms, scientists pick in Russian laboratories. According to the organizers of the experiment, it will help scientists determine, in particular, whether micro-organisms to move from planet to planet in the meteorite. "Return the unit as a model meteorite, which has pathogens" - explained the scientific secretary of ICI.

Formerly the director of the Institute for Space Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences Leo Green told that the experiment can be seen as one of the phases of training flight to Mars. In addition, the space experience could help verify the theory on which life on earth brought from outer space, "he said.

According to him, micro-organisms in question - it strains of bacteria. Scientists will check how they would affect their space radiation, weightlessness and other factors interplanetary flight. In doing so, special attention will be paid to exclude the possibility of the spread of terrestrial bacteria on Phobos. The capsules will be well protected, and the strains isolated.

The experiment Phobos-Grunt "is included in the federal space program until 2015. Under it will be a two Martian mission. The first unit went to Phobos, tentatively in October 2009. The second relates to the direct flight to Mars.

Its exact date has not yet been determined, but it held no later than 2015. During this mission will be a number of studies on energy and on landing.

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Invention to save the climate

So far, the strongest step in the fight against emissions has been signing the Kyoto Protocol, but weather experts agree that it will not be enough.

Some researchers

, before this alarming fact, have endorsed over the past few years a number of radical solutions which, broadly speaking, have in common the claim of radically transforming the planet to counteract the damage already done.

In some cases, it would be incalculable costs of pharaonic works and whose technology is not yet within our reach. In others, the consequences would be unpredictable. For one reason or another, it seems that no simple solution to solve the complex problem of climate change.

Make proliferate algae

Reduce the solar radiation

Throw salt in the air

Injecting sulfur into the atmosphere

Fertilizing the ocean with iron

Make

Proliferate algae

Author: James Lovelock, father of the Gaia theory, which considers the planet as a system capable of self, and Chris Rapley.

Idea: Fill the hollow tubes with seas of about 200 meters long. The base would have large valves capable of pushing up the waters of the deep, rich in nutrients.

Objective: Altering the marine ecosystem to multiply the population of algae which, in turn, would absorb the excess CO2 to the atmosphere and also an indirect cause of creating more clouds, with a refrigerator .

For: The idea was published in the scientific journal 'Nature' in September 2007. And he supported "the earth's capacity to heal itself", according to the authors wrote.

Against: A month later, experts from the National Oceanography Center in Southampton, UK, answered in the same journal: "This scenario would bring water with higher natural levels of CO2 (associated with nutrients) on the surface, potentially causing the emission of toxic gas CO '.

Reduce solar radiation

Author: The astronomer Roger Angel.

Idea: One of the most ambitious projects in this field would be the construction of a network of trillions of lenses reflective of about 60 centimeters in diameter each.

Objective: Divert from space solar radiation.

Against: The challenge is technologically unattainable today, and much more costly than the transition to an economy without fossil fuels.

A similar proposal would be put on the water in deserts or white plastic discs or foam, with the same aim of repelling the sunlight.

Pour salt into the air

Author: John Latham, professor emeritus of the University of Manchester.

Idea: Increase the reflectivity of clouds evaporating water from the oceans.

Objective: This is the salt that contains injected into the atmosphere, thus avoiding part of solar radiation, would delay the drizzles and clouds that would last longer.

For: The idea is based on computational models.

Against: The solution would not last more than a few weeks, which would require a fleet of boats constantly special atmosphere.

Sulfur to the atmosphere Molding

Authored by scientists as the Nobel Prize for chemistry Paul Crutzen.

Idea: Inject tons of particles of sulfur or sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere. Hundreds of airplanes or balloons would be responsible for the task.

Objective: To increase the index of reflectivity of the atmosphere and reduce, therefore, the radiation that reaches us.

Against: A recent study by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), published in the scientific journal 'Science', found that the measure would cause irreversible damage to the ozone layer, which would allow the passage of more amount of ultraviolet radiation, harmful for life.

Fertilize the sea with iron

Author: Companies like Planktos. It is one of the proposals that have raised more revulsion, to involve commercial purposes.

Idea: fertilize the sea with iron particles.

Objective: Multiply the amount of phytoplankton in the water, creating an explosion of marine plant life, which would absorb more CO2.

favor: Its application can be immediate and inexpensive.

against: It could disrupt the movement of iron in the oceans. Planktos has attempted to test the technique in the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador and the Canary Islands, but the initiative met with condemnation from experts and environmentalists. According to Greenpeace, "the London Convention has shown its concern about the negative effects it could have and has recommended it not be carried out."

Soyuz TMA-13 "with the new crew was launched to the ISS

The Russian carrier rocket Soyuz-FG "with the spaceship Soyuz TMA-13" on Sunday started with the Baikonur (Kazakhstan), transmits correspondent Interfax with spaceport.

On board the 13th Soyuz TMA "is a Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov, NASA astronaut Michael Fincke and sixth space tourist Richard Garriott.

"Running was a success. After nine minutes, the missile will display the ship in orbit Earth," - said the representative of the corporation Energia.

NASA astronaut Michael Fincke, behind which there is already a semiannual trip to the International Space Station, the first fly into space in the status of commander of the crew. He was convinced that being at the station commander is heavier than the second number. "

"The commander should think not only about myself but all the crew - Fincke told news agency before the flight. - Where once I was responsible only for their work, it must now worry not only about the success of the mission, but also about fun atmosphere at the station. " For example, he previously agreed with psychologists, as will be celebrating the birthday of the ISS flight engineer Yuri Lonchakova, Christmas and other holidays, because the crew on orbit is not easy work, and live in six months, so people need positive emotions.

Fincke told that he was an excellent teacher in orbit - Expedition 9 commander Gennady Padalka, who astronaut believes "the best commander in the history of space." "I was very lucky - I flew with Padalka, who has enormous patience, and he explained to me, should act as a crew commander, "- he said.

As the 41-year-old Air Force colonel, space, he "dream began as early as 3 years old when his compatriots landed on the Moon." A U.S. astronaut Finnish roots, one of his ancestors had lived in St. Petersburg, and he finds himself "Russian cosmonaut." "I do not know anything about the shuttle, never did not fly and do not lie, and for that I am in the USA even called Russian, besides, I never went into space in American EMU", - he confessed. But on the Russian Soyuz and on the armor "Orlan-M", in which he went into space 4 times, Fink very high opinion. "This is my luck - again fly on the Soyuz and work in" eagles ", thank you for that Russia", - said astronaut.

Born of Pennsylvania, the senior of 9 children, Fink graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a fellow Air Force USA. Then, in a pilot test, studied more than 30 types of aircraft, download them over 825 hours.

Master of Aeronautics and physics Fink in 1989 was internship at the Moscow Aviation Institute in an exchange program. After enrollment in 1996 in the garrison NASA astronauts duplicate the fourth and sixth expedition to the ISS and was certified for flight as a flight engineer of the Union ".

His first semi-annual flight to the ISS Expedition of-9 has committed to 2004 and immediately became a record for NASA astronauts on EXTRAVEHICULAR activities in the Russian Orlan-M "- he worked in them in an open space for almost 16 hours.

Fly away into space, Fincke left the Earth's wife, an Indian Renitu, as well as the moon, stars and sun - the so-translated from Sanskrit names of his son and two daughters. All the "planetary family" came to Baikonur to carry out his dad in the orbital mission.

Nord'N'Commander Tsar of Space

Russian swimmers at Olympics

Russia national team swimmer Roman Sludnov criticized the leadership team, saying that the blame for the lack of Russians Olympic medals higher dignity fully lies on the shoulders of leaders.

Diary Olympics-2008 and the results

"There are things which speak for themselves. Over the past eight years, Russian swimming or not progressed one step . We have to trh Olimpiadah row no more than two or three medals and no gold. A Sun ' because of the lack of professional managers. Athletes are working at maximum capacity. But sports leadership we . Receive suit two days before the start and did not have several masseurs in the team - it's just silly "to convey the words Sludnova Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Also Sludnov told that some Russian swimmers during the Games actively violated regime.

"Some members of Team Russia in swimming, to name a spade a spade, during the Games ! Situation got out of control, but as this is called, when in the course are and alcohol. I first saw this. I would have understood the guys If they gathered after the launch and "talked" and then on condition that they not been seen. But that is happening during the Olympics - as a way to behave in the main tournament "- he added.

Nobel prize for literature once again received a representative of the Old World - Frenchman Jean-Marie Gustave Leklezio

Nobel laureate for literature this year was the French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Leklezio. The Nobel committee in Stockholm awarded him the award for "novelty, poetry and sensuality, as well as the search for humanity beyond the current civilization", said Interfax.

Leklezio - modern French literature. It is considered one of the most important French writers of his generation, says . He was born in Nice 13 Apr., 1940 in the family Englishman and French. Leklezio received a liberal education, he worked at two British universities - in Bristol and in London.

- In Russia the choice of Stockholm did not approve: Leklezio not quite genius
- Nobel Prize for Literature (historical background)
- Two Frenchmen and a German won the Nobel Prize-2008 for Physiology or Medicine

As early as 23 years for his first novel "A", he was awarded the prestigious literary award Renodo - the most authoritative after Gonkurovskoy. She brought the writer a national reputation.

Artworks that Leklezio wrote in the next 10 years, joined the idea of helplessness person one on one with the modern world. By a trip to Mexico and Panama, Leklezio some time he lived among the Indians. This unusual experience and alter its view of the world and has a strong influence on his work. Since then, many works of the writer's life devoted to the story of "the last free people" on the planet.

In just his creative life Leklezio published over 30 books - novels, anthologies of short stories, translations of Mexican myths. In 1993 he wrote a history of life and love artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, who received a new take off in popularity after the successful rental "Frida."

However, according to Russian translators, the best novels Nobel Prize-2008, Jean-Marie Leklezio in Russia have not been issued. "The works of Jean-Marie in Russia is well known, but still they moved very little" - told , one of the most well-known translator of works by Nina Hotinskaya that directly worked on the translation of works Leklezio.

In total, Russia has been translated and published only six books author, who, in addition to the novel "Diego and Frida," "Mondo", "Travels on the other side", "Goldfish", "Desert", "Heavenly residents." Over the last three times and worked as Hotinskaya.

In Russia the choice of Stockholm did not approve: Leklezio not quite genius

The decision of the jury award of the Nobel Prize literary award this year, Jean-Marie Gustave Leklezio some Russian experts surprising. Chief editor of the magazine Foreign Literature "Alexander said Livergant agency that he was disappointed.

"We published the story Leklezio documentary about Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in the September issue of the magazine Foreign Literature in 2000. In addition, another publication under our French writers 25 years ago - this is his story in the 10-m room for 83 First year. And, indeed, all "- told Livergant. "But if you ask me what I know about this writer that I think about it, I will answer you: nothing," - he added.

"Once again, feel disappointed about the awarding of the Nobel Prize. I am quite surprised, maybe, I do not know, maybe this is brilliant writer, but on the other hand, would have been brilliant - we would know" - he added.

In 2006, Livergant predicted awarding the Nobel Prize for literature, Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk.

This year, a Russian expert calculated that receive the Nobel Salman Rushdie - scandalous famous British writer of Indian origin.

"This is a very good writer. Yes, it is not the number of such works as" The "from Kafka and" The Sound and Fury ", but he is a good writer, and in terms of political correctness, today's attitude to the world he will do as few people . As a writer he deserves the Nobel Prize ", - said Livergant.

Nobel Prize for Literature (historical background)

The very first Nobel Prize for literature was awarded in 1901 as the French - poet and philosopher Syulli Pryudomu for his works shown in "rare combination of mental and intelligence," said the official website dedicated to the Nobel Prize.

Note that according to statistics, over the past 12 years came from the Old World to become a Nobel laureate in 85% of cases.

Swedish Academy Permanent Secretary Horace Engdal, last week, even told reporters that American writers too "limited" to compete with Europe.

Last year, the winner of the Nobel literature prize was the British writer Doris Lessing.

Also winners of the prize in different years were: George Bernard Shaw (1925) for the effervescent satire in the works, marked by idealism and humanism.

In 1953, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded even a politician - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill for his excellent eloquence with which advocated the highest human values.

In the future premium received such famous authors as Ivan Bunin (1933), Ernest Hemingway (1954), Boris Pasternak (1958), Mikhail Sholokhov (1965) for artistic strength and wholeness of the novel Don Cossacks "Quiet Don" Joseph Brodsky (1987), Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1970).

Full list of Nobel laureates in literature presented at the site of a digital library of Science and Technology. "

The chain Starbucks wasted 23 million liters of water a day

U.S. chain of coffee shops Starbucks has been accused by a British newspaper spend 23 million liters of water a day for a health policy that requires keeping open continuously the faucets of its 10,000 branches.

Tabloid 'The Sun' estimates that every 83 minutes could fill an Olympic swimming pool with water wasted and misspent millions of liters daily serve to provide water to the people of Namibia, one of the driest countries on the planet .

Each has a Starbucks coffee shop behind the counter sink that is used for washing spoons and other utensils and whose tap, cold water, is open continuously, even when there is nothing to rinse.

The newspaper decided to investigate after hearing the story of a couple who complained to Starbucks to realize that the establishment which attended to waste water.

According to this couple, the company explained to him that the taps are open as a measure of hygiene to prevent bacteria from breeding in the pipes.

After the impact of the news, the multinational company, which is defined as a firm that respects the environment, defended the accusations, claiming that this cleaning system "assures or exceeds health standards" dictated by the Organization World Health Organization (WHO) and relevant agencies of the European Union and the USA.

Starbucks said in a statement that the taps are open to "low pressure" and only during business hours with the aim of eliminating the waste of food, keep clean utensils and prevent the proliferation of bacteria. "It's a common practice accepted by the industry," he said.

However, the multinational company recognized the "opportunity exists to reduce" the current water consumption and said that Starbucks is exploring the possibility of using the dishwasher for cleaning utensils, as it does with the material used by customers.

"The challenge of Starbucks is to balance water conservation with the security needs of customers," he said.

In this sense, the chain said that evaluates their equipment, design of facilities and staff training to reduce water use and environmental impact.

"We want to assure our customers in the UK and Ireland that we are working primarily on finding alternative solutions to the system of open faucet. We pledge to reduce water use in our branches," he said.

addition, the company said to be in contact with the organization Waterwise to study how to reduce water consumption without compromising the health and quality of their products and services.

In a world in which water is a little more, 'The Sun' explains that the amount of water wasted by a tap of the chain of coffee shops for three minutes up to the amount you would need a citizen African survive for a day.

The newspaper, who has visited numerous cafes in the chain to see that the taps are permanently open, collects opinions from various experts in water which they describe as "nonsense" policy hygiene Starbucks.

Marinaside Streetscape 1703-1201 Marinaside by Mike Stewart

LIGHTS, Gallimard Jeunesse, my discoveries

In the series "My discoveries" by Gallimard youth, a collective work is proposed around a new theme: "The light".
It must be said that the collection shines with its neat layout, dynamic and informative course. It starts with a rhyme: I see you
Can you see me
With the light
It is Then between a symbolization of the day and night, a summary is proposed: light I know! The sun-and light-shadow-For-Life Festivals and light-light-electric lights -light and sight. So the young reader will discover many aspects of light and its role in our daily lives, without forgetting the importance of natural light to our planet. Experiences, Thursday flaps, but encourages the child to active reading. Excellent book presentation remarkable. A small criticism, however: the ecological aspect is barely sketched. But we are still in awe of this light that comes from heaven, fire ... and the bulb. A recommendation from 5 years [SIZE = 14] [SIZE = 14]

Scientists: Mars does not become a "second Earth" because of the asteroid, who has hole in the crust

Giant asteroid could penetrate the hole in the crust of Mars, which damaged its magnetic field and robbed of his chance to become the same "blue planet", like Earth. On this version of scientists says the publication of The Times.

Earth's magnetic field created by molten iron in the crust, bends light, which otherwise would have damaged its atmosphere. Scientists have long tried to figure out why Mars is missing a field, while data orbital spacecraft did not have the answer to that question. Have been identified intense magnetic anomalies, damaging the rocks on the entire surface of the southern hemisphere of Mars. It appears that the residue fields previously surrounding the entire planet (full text on the site InoPressa.ru).

Such anomalies are not available in the northern hemisphere, which suggests that in the distant past, something happened to change the planet's magnetic field. This is complemented by another oddity of Mars: the rocks in the northern hemisphere significantly thinner than in the south. This phenomenon is known as the "dichotomy crust."

"Evidence suggests that a powerful strike in the early history of the planet could damage the liquid core, changing traffic and affecting the magnetic field" - noted Sabine Stanley, assistant professor of physics, University of Toronto, whose study was just published.

Presumably, Mars, together with the Earth and throughout the solar system, has about 4.6 billion years ago as a result of connecting stones and other debris when the Sun.

Has recently become the world grow, melt the stones, allowing the heaviest elements, such as iron, being in the center. Iron, which remains liquid thanks to the radioactive elements, the beginning of the movement, creating a magnetic field on both planets.

Previously, it was assumed that the nucleus of Mars simply because the Red Planet is half the Earth, but this theory has been undermined by the recent discovery that Mercury, which is even less, has a liquid core and magnetic field.

"We know that Mars had a magnetic field which disappeared 4 billion years ago, and that it happened simultaneously with the start of the dichotomy crust, perhaps due to the influence of the asteroid," - notes Stanley.

Perhaps the main question is what could happen if Mars has maintained its magnetic field, and could it create life.

"On Mars once had a dense atmosphere, standing water and a magnetic field, so it was not like a dry barren planet, we are witnessing today", said Monica Grady, professor of planetary and space sciences at the Open University.

The great turning point in American civilization

I had, a few months ago, annoyed, once again, the reader with my taste of paradoxes, welcoming the advent of a sort of "American socialism," primarily based on an immeasurable influence with the past of public power. I will not go into detail, so now the idea is becoming a truism: Times publishes the magazine, for example, a cartoon where the American flag passes, after a moment of transition, state of French flag, meaning that America, under the impact of the crisis, has abandoned all its principles prior to a state centralism and pragmatic, based on the tax increase, since nobody believes and repayment claims granted to financial institutions routed, nor their funding through debt, which, despite the impressive Chinese goodwill in this field, reached also its physical limits.

What remains controversial in this case is the form that will make this great turning point of American civilization, which we have already reached the floor of its basic infrastructure: Wall Street. Undoubtedly, the market economy and the strong inequality apparent pay are really concerned, not even the large presence of the United States in the world.

Rather than a comparison, sometimes possible, with the years 1988-1989 for the Soviet Union, it will invoke more likely the years 1979-1980 in the United States, which marked the end of the model and the seizure of power by a new monetarist and populist coalition that Reagan was able to forge since the 1970s, California. In sum, assuming that the crisis of 1929 gave birth to an original model which was extended despite increasing difficulties, until 1979, a period of 47 years and a major accident, the War World, it may be assigned back to Ronald Reagan paternity of a substantially shorter time - half the previous straddling it on the collapse of communism and the advent of globalization.

Car nor Nixon in the 1970s or Eiseinhower before him in the 1950s, were able to seriously influence the model inherited s Democrats, the Clinton episode was not reached , Especially after the "cohabitation" imposed by a Congress dominated by Republican Gingrich, to create the foundations for a strong welfare state or to stem the liberal open markets, despite some initial protectionist temptations.

Here in haste and trembling a new model was introduced in a few weeks. Now, despite some elected populist left or right, the principle of tax increases is adopted. Now facing the providential intervention of Chinese savings, the strategy of systematic decline of the dollar to boost exports also dropped, it will be more that the new austerity will signal a U.S. immediate influx of capital from the rest of the earth in search of a recovery without risk and cost of entry significantly facilitated by the depreciation of U.S. assets over a period of time. Here, finally, that America thinks very seriously reduce its energy consumption. Now that the dollar may not fall much more, it should simply buy less oil in OPEC. Similarly, trade barriers and protections in all areas should not disappear, quite the contrary.

We have seen that the transition from model to model had not provided however the same processing of foreign policy, it was the abolition of military service. This time, the disruption can not be that much more important: America completes the proper military phase of the war against terrorism, and it has a proactive model economy that could lead to a revolution strategic formidable less 'police operations, a radical redefinition of priorities, brought by a new financial austerity, but contradictorily, the confines of Pakistan, perhaps the outline of a real war with a veritable army in Pakistan in alliance with the India, Israel, and who knows what would a new Iran closer to Washington.

Because we may be trying to leave an elite in the bottom and very permissive rather complacent when the King was personal enrichment and processing of the army into a International , one of the major consequences. Now, one can quite envisage the end of this neocolonialism reluctant, but perhaps also the willingness to assume much broader conflict with the powers that are more hiding behind a finger, even inquisitive, Osama bin Laden.

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Earth or space

On Tuesday began the 63rd UN General Assembly in the middle of global financial crisis, but also in the midst of the most serious ecological crisis to which we have never had to face.

At the annual meeting attended by representatives of the 192 UN member countries, with some 120 delegations led by presidents or vice presidents of State or Government.

Stephen Hawking says that "the future of mankind is in space, since it will be very difficult at this stage, to avoid a disaster on the planet Earth in the next hundred years." Given the reluctance of world leaders to tackle the ecological crisis is not short right.

Some interesting thing has been heard in this General Assembly: George Bush, for example, said in his last speech before the body such contempt for eight years: "the United Nations and other multilateral organizations are needed more urgently than ever ".

It seems that he has had to get to the end of its mandate to recognize many things contrary to those that have marked the political action of his presidency.

In his day and had to admit that climate change exists and is caused by the action of human beings. What is regrettable that these changes of position 'post' is produced without any recognition, nor apologized for the mistake, or for the consequences it could have had.

Climate change requires no doubt of that multilateral action that the United States so far has not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.

Striking little time and interest to world leaders dedicated to the deterioration of the planet. As if only the financial crisis requiring an answer.

So far the proposal has been the most interesting of the Swiss government to establish a tax on CO2 emissions, with funds obtained concrete measures for mitigation and adaptation to the devastating consequences of climate change. He has not had much echo, the truth.

So as things are going, Hawking will be right. Sure it will say that it is a disaster, and a radical environmentalist. Ya know.

Climate: A Crisis Averted

Climate change and not for the difficulties in stopping

Yesterday gave the world a story that tells us more as we accelerate towards the precipice career suicide: By heating the planet, rising temperatures are concentrated in the Arctic region, for the simple reason to understand: evaporate one kilogram of water requires 540 , while a kilogram of ice melt requires only 80.

When warm water ice, and melt the Siberian tundra, released unimaginable amounts of methane, namely natural gas, whose warming potential is 27 times that of CO2. We are going to gallop, and looking for horses ever faster, toward collapse.

The efforts of all those who have seen the plane actually collide with those who continue with mist in the eyes, with the ideas of all those still clinging to an illusion similar to that of financiers that in June still thought that the crisis was far away. The reality is that the efforts of Kyoto have been hot air: Emissions of CO2 and methane rise and rise forever on our planet.

But we have the solution in our hands, and goes through to get glasses to correct myopia. If a good economist trained in the traditional economy accepts read about new economic models will realize that by introducing the time in off-balance models of solar energy, which does not emit gases, not only do not pose a minor loss to society, but will generate considerable benefits.

Spain are being obstacles for the sake of an "order in the market," the expansion of . The day ends on September 29 the cycle of a certain scheme of grants for its installation in the new cycle will want to impose a limit to the power to install each year.

Some people find it reasonable. Who says you can not subsidize this energy, for the sake of the market. But Mr. Bush has shown so palpable that the idea of "market" is a entelechy like the idea of the mermaids or centaurs. The "market" exists only for what the politicians want it exists, but is canceled at the time that society has an interest in it.

Much closer, here at home, we have the following examples of "market": The coal mining, toll motorways, state and regional television stations, etc., etc.. All that what we paid through grants, of which no one spoke. And do not generate profits as the energy generated by solar.

Nuclear power was supported for decades. Probably because it was assumed that there was a need for nuclear bombs (does it need?). The amount of public money buried in nuclear power is unimaginable. Even today, when a company wants to mount a nuclear power, it wants to do because the accident insurance is paid by the state, that is, what we pay all without jokes.

It is urgent, it is imperative that Spain is set to mount solar energy, not to Cachito not to disgust, but lying to the race. If there are problems with the electrical grid, you can change that network: Investment and jobs. If there are problems with distribution, can be solved with software engineering. There seems to be no other problems.

We have to see how, day by day, minute by minute, van disappearing kilowatts per hour coming out to the meter from fossil fuel power plants or nuclear power plants and see while climbing the van kilowatts per hour solar home. A chart with two parallel thermometers, which one is lower the amount of fossil fuel / nuclear minute by minute and the next to go up the sun, would be the best contribution the government and the regional governments could make , In truth, climate change and the richness of the Spaniards.

'You will be the next to die'

Again, a student has caused a massacre at a school. And once again, with advance warning on the Web. After the massacres at the Technical University of Virginia and the institute Jokela of Finland, this time he has touched the turn of the city of Kauhajoki, also in the Nordic country.

The alleged assailant, 22, was driving on the Internet under the alias' Wumpscut86 '. Well contained in the portal of YouTube videos until your account was suspended in the wake of the slaughter. In the social network Facebook, however, preferred to use their real name: Matti Saari. According to his profile, still available, only one person had been added as a friend.

Despite the cancellation of its space on YouTube, the trail of the murderer was still on the web after the massacre. The actual 'Wumpscut86'-or-accomplice climbed to a portal download a file containing your videos and more than a dozen photographs.

The recordings were filmed between last Wednesday and this Tuesday, just a few hours before the shooting. In the first, the assailant, dressed in a black leather jacket, performs up to 10 shots at a target that does not appear in the image.

Then, in a video recorded at 06.41 am on Tuesday, the student notes before squeezing the trigger: "You will be the next to die." Finally, three minutes later, firing again and fired while his gaze directed toward a still camera: "Goodbye."

Violence

Precedents

Cho Seung-Hui and Pekka-Eric Auvinen.

The case recalls that of Cho Seung-Hui, the South Korean who caused the biggest student massacre the history of the U.S., and Pekka-Eric Auvinen, the Finnish that killed eight people before committing suicide.

Murderer of Virginia, in the interval between the two shootings that caused 32 deaths in one day, sent to the television network NBC a package of videos, photos and writings. "You had 100,000 million opportunities and ways to avoid it, but you decided to spill my blood," he said. "I have cornered in a corner and I have only one option left. The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never be able to wash."

Finnish student, for his part, left their mark on YouTube with the nicknames' NaturalSelector89 'and' Sturmgeist89 '. "The faster the human race is annihilated on this planet, the better ... no one should be alive. There should be no compassion with the scum of the earth," said Eric, before sentencing: "What is the best thing in life What ends. "

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The boomerang effect of the crisis in Russian-Georgian

culmination of the Russian-Georgian crisis now seems past. It is time for real balances. Russia has benefited from its initial firmness at least one theater, Ukraine. It develops in fact, in Kiev, a very broad consensus to adjourn sine die the country's membership of NATO. Certainly, we can see that the main advocate of a politico-military alliance in the West, President Yushchenko knows, moreover, a spectacular collapse of his political credibility in the polls, almost parallel to the almost complete recovery of his face once smudged by the attempted poisoning which he had been victim. But the changeover of its first minister and ally in the Orange Revolution, Yulia Tymoshenko, has already tagged the ground next general election: a coalition of his party and "regions", the first comprising the bulk of Russian voters of Donbass, the Crimea and Odessa. With the return of qualified representatives of non-Ukrainian power, Moscow has ipso facto a right of veto over if not all decisions of the Ukrainian government. Like the French and German diplomats have indicated their refusal start a maneuver that also destabilizing the entry of Ukraine and Georgia into NATO, some may consider the team Putin has reconstituted won a resounding success.

However, one train may hide another: if the situation in Ukraine is recovering - but recovered before the Georgian crisis - the relationship of Russia and the former constituent republics of the Soviet Union have, however, dramatically deteriorated. Judging that even the dreadful satrap of independent Belarus, Lukashenko, approximates the most unexpected of Poland and the Baltic neighbors to shield Russian ambitions. Poutinienne diplomacy had spent much for to achieve an alternative to NATO with China and Central Asian Republics, "the group said in Shanghai." However, the organization has little credibility shattered because of the spectacular failure and even trumpeted by China to assume the slightest solidarity with Moscow. There are, of course, in this attitude, a legal position clear: China can not endorse changes, even symbolic, the legal status of certain territories, otherwise it would weaken its sustained as intransigent attitude towards Tibet to Taiwan, but the Chinese annoyance goes well beyond: after the success of the Olympics, and while black clouds gathering on the global economy, China has no desire to logic Cold War, the first event would be the erection by a U.S. Congress to democratic majority of new protectionist barriers. If Russia believed to have autonomy of action due to its important position in the market for oil, China, it can not afford this luxury with growth that is fed primarily by the side effects of its exports , Including the United States.

But it is still a more alarming for the Russian government: the massive disinvestment - though not together - all those who, over recent years, had set to buy Russian shares to the Moscow Stock Exchange. If the Soviet economy is not very dependent on these financial flows, however, the position of main oligarchic is already reached. Item will need a concerted process of sanctions: the American crisis and its European sufficient to reducing the exposure of Western capitalism in a region again at high risk. It is not safe for a victory which could lead by less brutal, simply play into the hands of political parties in Ukraine, Russia does not pay an exorbitant price in terms of credibility for its alliances and attractiveness of its economy. Even if you bet that a quick exit from the global financial crisis, there is no doubt that in a first time, the slowdown will lead to a more rapid decline of a barrel of oil. But Russia does today that raw materials and some weapons systems to oil-producing countries and China. Without even establish mechanisms hostile Europeans will be faced very soon with a Russia more malleable and less triumphalist. It is here that Europe must above all be careful not to follow in an emulation absurd the Russian strategy in recent weeks. Apparently, the time is opportune to avenge big arm who were afraid the whole Earth. In reality, but rather the optimal time to negotiate with Russia out of crisis and a Western alliance, particularly from the European Union, which immediately stabilize a large part of the planet.

RUSSIA CHINA ATENAS 2004

Fomboni: micro-capital of a micro-world

Fomboni, the "capital" of Moheli spread over more than two kilometers along "the road. Two kilometers while the whole island does little more than thirty thousand people is whether we breathe in this "capital". The concrete has not yet invaded that too large village consisting mainly of sonic land or plaited coconut leaves. The roofs are covered with raffia, as in all the Comoros and Madagascar. Tour.
Market When we want to get to know one village, one city, one place: the market. This is the place of all trade, the beginning of any life. Fomboni is no exception. A vast space, on Wednesday .. near a coconut plantation ... huge mango ... Postcard? Not at all! There is more something that does not appear on a postcard: life. A quiet, serene, but active. The covered market, built recently, is housed in a square building, whose high roof is hollowed at the center. Large arches recall the architecture of the Great Mosque of Moroni. A gentle slope allows rainwater to be recovered in a small pond covered with blue ceramic tiles clear. It is empty. The rainy season has not yet really begun
The market Fomboni
The market Fomboni A group of is installed under the huge mango tree. They are sitting in front of their stalls: a few hands of bananas, some peppers, a few pieces of dried coconut ... In the end, the equivalent of a few francs for a whole day of attendance. I said attendance: they really do not feel like "work" as we understand it. It discusses, you laugh, s' .. . never long, but intensely. Each discussion quickly becomes interminable: it does not address the problems in three words, it requires that everyone has time to argue its case. Ballet bush taxis, loading and unloading bunches of bananas and passengers. No wall to stop and return noise that evaporate, respecting the calm of the place.
When one wants to leave the bush for Fomboni is a strategic location: all taxis pass through here. Patience is also part of the strategy. Patience to find a vehicle, but also patience to discuss the prices they can be multiplied by ten for the same course!
Departure from bush taxi
The "port" If another word be used "port", but in fact there is no infrastructure Fomboni neither dam to stop the waves, or even a lighthouse. Except for a dock that extends into the open sea and becomes useless as soon as Wednesday a little agitated. Moreover, the dhows arrive in Moheli, which eventually renounce the use: they prefer wet near the beach for their loads as before ...
The dhow awaits the tide For the record, this dock had been planned in Bandar Salama, a village adjacent Fomboni. But the "field", as it is called here, there already and the authorities have denied that this village have so many advantages. The "field" is the landing ground: it refuses to talk about airport ... And thus one of the few infrastructure Moheli is virtually useless. The wharf was built by Colas, a French construction. It has built several of these platforms Mayotte, and therefore possesses the technical, except in Mayotte, the lagoon protects large waves ...
The village Fomboni was "developed" along the only road along the coast. To the east, the port and west "LA" station of the island and a hotel, the "Relais". Between the two, three good km during which it crosses the services they offer the island a few jurisdictions, two banks, the post office, "Regional Hospital Fomboni, the Resource Center and ... the O.N.G. Fomboni is a village that a departure from the spine, found a village identical to the other: cases of raffia, bang earth ... very few concrete. Everything dotted here and there a few stalls offering the same products. The most striking, especially when it comes Mayotte, the side is "pretty" boxes. Here, a small square surrounded by a barrier of tiny bamboo houses some flowers ... there, a hedge of oleander protects housing by providing shade and coolness ... The streets are clean, not cans of Coca-cola or beer, not a plastic bag ... We must say we are no cans of Coca-cola or beer or plastic bags in shops ... In places like browsing Moheli we wondered about the "benefits of civilization" ... extensive debate! But above all, above all, we said that we must absolutely not allowed to reproduce the gross errors committed on the island nearby where there is no question of putting foot in a river, where streets look more like a deposit garbage than any other thing! We always wondered what tourists may think, trying to draw Mayotte at great cost, when they roam the streets of Mamoudzou and discover the extent of indoor pollution. Dhow in compensation on the beach indices are there for us to worry about the future of Fomboni: litter arrive on the beach and there has been no structure to manage the waste that will surely arrive. There is no doubt that the arrival of visitors (increasing), the return of Mohliens parties in France or even in Moroni will bring new consumption habits, a new way of life. For now, Moheli still lives in the nineteenth century, but this is just a matter of a few years. If the bush villages and the few leaders who "manage the business" are sensitive to the environment, it is not certain that this is the same in Fomboni already suffering syndrome in the capital.
Playground in Moheli As soon as night falls on Moheli, life seems to stop. The lack of lighting makes people return home, around a lamp, mostly oil. Electricity is for the rich. The games children cease, falls silent, calm prevails, even more than in the present day. A peaceful life, but full of desire to join the "concert of nations "... Trivia
MEETING OF "CINEMA" Saturday evening at Fomboni ... The occupations are not numerous. So we "is a restaurant, as there is only one in Fomboni, the choice is made quickly, it goes to" Akmal ". On the way back, a crowd before a bang. On the facade, a box protected by glass announces program: an Indian film. Why not?
- This is how the entrance?
- Fifty francs (about 65 cents)
This represents a financial risk acceptable. On payday, you enter (by lowering his head ..)
Some thirty people sitting on boards barely raised ground a few centimeters in a joyful babbling referring to a classroom. Before the "spectators", a TV, VCR, which have at least experienced the Gulf War. Between parasites, we can guess a quivering. Trailers follow, interspersed with some pub for a jewelry .. . India.
The film begins, discussions are continuing. Parasites fade, or maybe it was accustomed. After trying in vain to understand something for half an hour, eventually abdicate.
- It goes?
- On s'en va!
The dark night swallows us. Turmoil continues around the bang. Apart from a few Indian traders, no one speaks the language. It is therefore entitled to think that nobody understands nothing to the tragedies occurring on the screen ... But it moves, and this is a new opportunity to meet. Is this not the most important?